Chin rest for violins



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CHIN BEST FOR VIOLINS.

APPLlCATlON FILED JULY 2|,192o.

Patented NOV. 14, 1922.

INVENTUFX- Patented Nov. 14, 1922.

UNITED STATES OLIVER S. COLBENTSON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CHIN BESTv FOR VIOLINS.

Application filed July 31,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER S. COLBENT- SON, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, a citizen of the United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chin Rests for Violins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices which are secured. to violins for engagement b the players chin. Such rests when in use are ordinarily fixed in position relative to the front of the violin, and my object is to devise a chin rest in which the pad engaged by the chin is adjustable to and from the front of the violin and is also adjustable to different angles relative to the front of the violin both longitudinally and transversely.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved chin rest;

Fig. 2 an end elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 a similar view showing the chin rest tilted transversely of the device;

Fig. 4 a plan view of the device; and

Fig. 5 a sectional detail of the pivotal connection between the pad hinge and one of the slides.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 is a clamp, which may be of any ordinary construction, though I prefer to use the form shown in which the part 2 of the clamp is suitably guided on the main part of the clamp and is actuated by the cam lever 3 rotatable on the spindle 4 and engaging the cross head 5, the abutment for the cam lever being formedby a nut 6 threaded on the spindle 4 to provide adjustment for the clamp. This construction, however, is old in the art and no claim is made thereto.

The part 1. of the clamp carries the guides 7 in which are longitudinally movable the slides 8, the slides being adapted to be clamped as moved by set screws 9. These slides carry the pad 10, which is thus adjustable in a direction normal to the belly of the violin. Preferably the pad has a hinged connection with the slides on an axis substantially tangential to the sides of the violin,

1920. Serial No. 400,491.

so that its angle transversely of the face of the pad to the belly of the violin may be varied. The pad is therefore provided with a base 11 connected by means of hinges 12 with the upper ends of the slides 8. The hinges are preferably of the well known spring type including a spring 13 which tends to hinge the pad towards the violin. Contact with the belly of the violin is, however, prevented by the supporting plate 14 connected with the clamp. It is evident by setting the slides to the different degrees of extension that the outer edge of the pad can be adjusted to different distances from the belly of the violin, and that therefore its angle to the violin belly will vary. It is desired, however, with any given distance of the outer edge of the pad from the violin belly to vary the angle without changing such distance. A variable adjustable contact or support between the plate 14 and the pad is therefore provided. This may be a contact member slidable either on the base of the pad or the supporting plate 14. I show this contact member as a slide adjustable on the plate 14 by means of a clamping screw 16 operating through a slot in the plate 14.

It is also desirablethat the angle of the pad to the belly of the violin longitudinally of the pad should be variable. I therefore form pivotal connections between the hinges 12 and the slides 8. Such connections may be formed by screws 17 threaded through the slides and into the hinge members, the heads of the screwsbeing preferably recessed. As indicated, a slot is formed in the end of one slide through which the screw passes, provision being thus made for the varying distances between the heads of the slides when one is out of alinement with the other. I do not desire, of course, to confine myself to such specific construction.

From the construction described, it will be seen that I have devised a chin rest which may be exactly adjusted to meet the users r uirements.

at I claim as my invention is 1. In a chin rest for violins, the combination of a clamp; a pad supported thereon; means for adjusting the pad on the clamp in a direction normal to the belly of the violin to which the device is applied; and means for varying the angle of the face of the pad to the belly of the violin transversely of the pad.

2. chin rest constructed as set forth in claim 1 provided also With means for varying; the angle of the face or thepad to the belly of the violin longitudinally of the pad.

In a chin rest for violins, the oombination of a clamp; a slide adjustable on the clamp in a direction normal to the belly of and a pad hinged on the slide on an ELXlS substantially tangential to the side of the violin.

4:, A chin rest "for violins as set forth in claim 3 provided with a spring tending to rock the pad towards the violin.

5. A. chin rest for violins as set forth in claim 3 provided With a support for the pad extending; from the clamp and a Contact the violin to which the device is applied; a

pad carried by the slides and having a pivotal connection with one slide and a pivotal and sliding connection with the other slide the violin to which the device 15 applied;

whereby the angle of the pad to the belly of: the violin may be varied in a direction longitudinal of the pad.

'7. A chin rest for violins as set forth in claim 6 provided with hinges tor the pad Wherebv the pad may swing on an axis substantially tangential to the side of the violin.

Signed at Toronto, Canada, this 26th day ofJuly 1920.

OLIVER S. COLBENTSON" CID 

